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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

Gaston Bachelard

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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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Childhood Cosmos Happiness Human Man Peace Solitude Son World
When the image is new, the world is new.
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Image New World
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Dreamer Infinity Transportation World
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Confidence Function Imagination Proper Thankful World
For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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Date Determination Intimacy Knowledge Local Space Urgent
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Creation Desire Difference Man Need
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nature One Liner Resistance Understand
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Description Object Slave Subject
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Away Connection Past Pull
Man is an imagining being.
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Imagination Man One Liner
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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Calm Reflection World

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